Burt Wolf-- what we eat
Subtitle: Disc four : Spanish influence
By: Acorn Associates, Ltd
Contributors: Acorn Associates; Ambrose Video Publishing
Publisher: Ambrose Video
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Travel; Domestic animals; Livestock; Animal culture; Cattle herding; Tomatoes; Ketchup; Food; History
Other titles: What we eat.; Spanish influence
Description: Three episodes from a 13-part series that explores the changes in the way people ate when Christopher Columbus made his voyages and opened up the exchange of plants and animals between the Old World and the New.

Pt. XI looks at the introduction of livestock to the Americas that insured the success of all future Spanish settlements,  meat became the least expensive food in America, and America became the best fed population in the world. Pt. XII finds out why the tomato was readily accepted in Italy and Southern Europe but not in the north. Pt. XIII  is an overview of the series, looks at the forces that led to the voyages of Columbus and their continuing effect on our world, a synopsis of the most important historical data presented in the series.
Notes: Videodisc release of the series released to KET public television November 2002.

Hosted by Burt Wolf.

DVD.

Optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Domesticated bliss : the story of livestock in America; title: Time to play ketchup : the story of the tomato; title: Connecting the dots.